ARBUG Diamond Award Submission Instructions

How to Submit Your Course for Review

1. Provide information about you and your course in the "Self-evalution" section of the submission form (Word Format).
   
2. Self-evaluate your course using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Rubric (PDF Format).
3. Contact your Blackboard system administrator to create a back-up of your course and restore it on your server for use by the evaluation team.
4. Submit the completed Submission form at http://www.arbug.org/diamond/diamond-award-submission-form/ no later than February 24, 2012.

Self-Evaluation Instructions

1. Print a copy of the Blackboard Exemplary Course Rubric (PDF Format).
2. For each section of the Blackboard Exemplary Course Rubric (Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment, and Learner Support), turn to the appropriate section of the rubric to view the descriptions to help identify your course’s status (Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Incomplete).
3. Rate your course’s status for each section of the Rubric.
4. Provide narrative descriptions and examples in support of your rating selection for each of the 4 sections of the Rubric.
5. List and describe three practices from your course that you regard as exemplary for online learning.

Submission Guidelines

1. Courses being submitted must be in one of Blackboard’s Learning Management Systems (e.g., Blackboard Academic Suite, Campus Edition/Vista, ANGEL).
2. Online access to a copy of the course must be provided to the **Evaluation Team so they can review the four Rubric categories in the learning context.
3. The Evaluation Team will need designer, builder, or editor access to the course copy until April 30, 2012.
4. Courses submitted for review must have ended by January 1, 2012. Courses in which students are currently enrolled will not be reviewed in order to comply with privacy standards.
5. Only courses with a completed Submission Form uploaded to the submission website at http://arbug.org/ will be reviewed.
6. All supplementary materials must be converted to electronic format, (PDF, Flash, PowerPoint, Camtasia, Captivate, etc.) and uploaded to the submission website http://www.arbug.org/
   
7. All submissions will be acknowledged by email within 5 business days of receipt of the submission form. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within this time, contact the ARBUG webmaster http://www.arbug.org/.

**Evaluation Team: Each completed Submission will be reviewed by an Evaluation Team consisting of three (3) members, one of which will be familiar with the LMS of the submitted course.